InternetNews.com states: "Microsoft (or a really smart ISV) should build a full application manager for Windows, similar to what most Linux distributions do today." Most Windows applications come with their own distinctive updating mechanism (much like Mac OS X), instead of having a centralised updating location like most Linux distributions offer. While it certainly wouldn't be harmful for Windows to gain such a feature - the question remains: isn't it time we rethink program installation and management altogether?

I think it would be too much of a threat to MS and it's shareholders. They would have to host competitive software along side there own products. Wile I'd love to see the Windows Update site offering Firefox, Opera and Safari along side IE.. something about winged bacon comes to mind.

Centrlized package management would do a lot of good for the end user but it's not about them, it's about the shareholder's payoff.